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Employees Rebuild Tables for Bogota School Children in South America

Members of Ingersoll Rand’s Emerging Leader Development Program
spent part of their mid-program meeting sprucing up tables at a
children’s orphanage in Colombia – delighting the kids and boosting
the company’s external Progressive, Diverse and Inclusive efforts.

The large tables at the Fundación Niños de los Andes, an orphanage
in Bogota, Colombia, are a place where the children gather for meals
and do their homework. Lately they had been showing the wear and tear
of all that activity; but, now they are rebuilt thanks to a group of
Ingersoll Rand employees.

About 31 people, most of whom were from Ingersoll Rand’s ELDP
(Emerging Leader Development Program), spent a day in late February
rebuilding about 10 tables. Some of the children, who range in age
from 13 to 18, helped, too. “The tables were in really bad shape,”
said James Robertson, talent and organization assessment
specialist, who helped organize the event.

The effort was part of a mid-program meeting for the EDLP, a
one-year program that helps the company groom future leaders in the
Latin America region. The experience was a highlight of the time the
team spent together during the week and the children were ecstatic to
spend the day with so many people from around the region.Jiame
Jaramilo, known as the “father” of the Colombian street
children, joined the team and shared his inspiring story of service
over the past 40 years.

Progressive, Diverse and Inclusive Efforts are Both Internal and
External Sprucing up a school is just one example of
Ingersoll Rand’s external Progressive, Diverse and Inclusive
(PDI) efforts in South America, said Gustavo Valbuena Torres,
Colombia and Central America human resources manager, who is based in
Bogota, where the company has a sales office. “The PDI focus on
education is for both internal and external,” said Troy Hayes,
director, talent and leadership development. “It is internal in that
we learn and educate ourselves more about what it means to engage
people who are diverse; and it is external in that we support
communities that seek to improve education.”

But for the children of Fundación Niños de los Andes, the important
thing is a clean sturdy table; and, thanks to the generosity of some
Ingersoll Rand employees, they now have that.

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